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The Yellow Wallpaper

This illustration reminds me of, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman because of the story’s unnamed main character. The character has an intense deep hatred for the wallpaper in a place she was staying in for vacation. The character suffered from hysteria and began to hallucinate of women creeping behind the wallpaper she was so fixated on. One can argue that the woman behind the wallpaper was the characters trapped persona, she was being held captive by her husband who was dismissive of her feelings. I believe this picture captures just that.